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The Wild Stares – and where should this begin but back in the day when this band first caught global attention and left a good story to tell about their journey which I am glad to catch back up with on – Automatic Writing Machine, their latest full length release. …

In his new album Undeaf, Hēran Soun unravels a tangled depth of emotion years in the making. His unique perspective and interpretations of sound is often askew to what we normally term a pop sound. He bends sounds, he manipulates them to something beyond ambient ribbons. The risks he takes …

Intro tracks have been making one heck of a comeback in the year 2020 among indie folk/rock syndicates around the American underground, but thankfully, their dreadful and forced presence isn’t a factor in Skittish’s new album Savannah Sessions – for this record’s opening cut, “Intro(Vert),” is anything but the sort of throwaway …

Grand Nathaniel is one J Burton, an artist who settled on the name by way of it first going by Grand Nathaniel and the Ghosts, with a more progressive approach. The difference is a lighter and more pop style with an 80s throwback vibe on the current release of At …

Bursting at the seams with a color that will only get brighter as we get deeper into the tracklist, “In Love and War” initiates the thrill ride David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels are intent on taking us on in their new album A Gateway to a Lifetime of Disappointment, but …

Smooth Sailing Forever is interesting because Terry Ohms is really the alter ego of one Wes McDonald, the songwriter and singer/guitarists for Vulture Whale and The Ohms, and now the drummer for dream-psych-rock outfit, People Years. McDonald himself can take the credit for it all but it’s nothing new because …

Avatar hits the world with their new album, Hunter Gatherer, on August 7th, 2020. This is their eighth full length album. Their first single, Silence in the Age of Apes, gives us a glimpse of their new wardrobe and look. Each song was recorded with each member of the band …

In their latest album, titled Unexpected Guests, veteran project Toronto Tabla Ensemble offer us an intimate look into spiritually stimulating songcraft unlike any other you’re likely to encounter this summer. In tracks like “Maryem’s Here,” “Money Tale” and “Dream Symposium,” Toronto Tabla Ensemble make it more than obvious how little they …

With a startlingly icy glow, the string-born melody that starts up “Winter in the North” is but a taste of the magic soon to come pouring out of our speakers in this, the first of two new songs previewing The Chamber Echos by alternative rockers Cape Nowhere. Borrowing slightly from the experimental …

Whether crushing us with lush guitar-focused harmonies in “Fighting Sleep,” dazzling with rough-riding riffage in the surprisingly melodic “OK Let’s Try” or throwing down potent pop hooks in “Come to Us,” there’s scarcely a moment in Clouded, the new record from Les Nuby, that isn’t riddled with some level of physicality not normally …

Swirling around us in a psychedelic deluge in “Not Enough.” Slipping in and out of focus like a fading sunset in “Home.” Defining a mood with buoyant bands of distortion, reminiscent of both Dinosaur Jr. and a more contemporary noise-rock movement. Whether hazy or seamlessly harmony-oriented in tone, there’s no …

They’re slinking around to a sluggish but ultimately enrapturing electric groove in “Red Crimes.” Bashing us in the face with eruptive riffs in “The Foreigner.” Smothering the air with carnal beats in “Pieces.” The energy is both adrenaline-laced in “5000 Years” and anxiety-inducing in “Uomo Moderno.” The intensity is inescapable …